Peer Tutoring for Public Speaking

Catalog description

This course will prepare students to become peer tutors in public speaking. CAS 490 Peer Tutoring for Public Speaking (3) This course will prepare undergraduates for work as peer tutors in the area of public speaking. Students will begin by considering peer tutoring as an opportunity for civic engagement, and public speaking as integral to the democratic process. Students will review and practice elements of the speaking process both to become excellent speakers themselves and also highly competent tutors for their peers across the university's curriculum. In addition to instruction on elements of public speaking, students will study and practice the art of critique. This course will include in-class instruction, discussion, and activities, as well as a practicum in which students will participate in reviews of peers' work at all stages of the speaking process.